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A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened…
A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union believers have with God and Christ, and the glorious privileges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nigh.A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union beleevers have with God and Christ, and the glorious priviledges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
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But as he was God and man, and assumed our Nature, and became mediator in our Room and stead. So he professeth of himself: That his Father is greater than he. As he took upon him the form of a servant, became our surety, and came in the similitude of sinful flesh, yet without sin. Joh. 14.28. In his voluntary and free dispensation, as he was willing to take our flesh, and dwell thereby amongst us, so is he inferior to himself, as ⟨p. 60⟩God, and so to his Father. And yet take the work it self, and the manner of the work, as it was explicated before, and the phrase of sending implies; he is only sent of the Father. But look at the work Early, he may be said to be sent by all: but that is unusual, nay in open phrase never to be found in Scripture, because the word comes not in that sense to our view.
But as he was God and man, and assumed our Nature, and became mediator in our Room and stead. So he professeth of himself: That his Father is greater than he. As he took upon him the forme of a servant, became our surety, and came in the similitude of sinful flesh, yet without sin. Joh. 14.28. In his voluntary and free dispensation, as he was willing to take our flesh, and dwel thereby amongst us, so is he inferiour to himself, as ⟨p. 60⟩God, and so to his Father. And yet take the work it self, and the manner of the work, as it was explicated before, and the phrase of sending implies; he is only sent of the Father. But look at the work Earely, he may be said to be sent by all: but that is unusual, nay in open phrase never to be found in Scripture, because the word comes not in that sense to our view.
As he becomes to take our Nature, so he was sent. But as Son, by eternal generation, he is made fit to take our Nature. And therefore it is; the assuming of Human Nature is made a propriety, a thing peculiar to the second person; Insomuch, that it is heresy to say, the Father was incarnate, or the Holy Ghost incarnate.